{"id":297167,"date":"2023-11-22T19:24:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T19:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=297167"},"modified":"2023-11-22T19:24:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T19:24:05","slug":"exclusive-lewis-hamilton-held-talks-with-red-bull-and-ferrari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/racing\/f1\/exclusive-lewis-hamilton-held-talks-with-red-bull-and-ferrari\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Lewis Hamilton held talks with Red Bull and Ferrari"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>EXCLUSIVE: Lewis Hamilton held talks with Red Bull and Ferrari about joining before he inked new \u00a350m-a-year deal with Mercedes&#8230; and he was even open to joining forces with rival Max Verstappen!<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lewis Hamilton signed a new \u00a350m-per-year, two-year deal back in August<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It has now emerged that the Mercedes driver held talks with two rival teams\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The claims have been made to Mail Sport by Red Bull chief Christian Horner\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A representative of Lewis Hamilton contacted Red Bull about him partnering Max Verstappen at the world championship-winning team before he signed a \u00a3100million deal to remain at Mercedes, and he also held talks with Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>The explosive claims come in an exclusive interview with Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, blowing a hole in Hamilton&#8217;s insistence that Mercedes was the only place where he wanted to see out his career.<\/p>\n<p>The revelations reinforce <span>Mail Sport&#8217;s<\/span>\u00a0story in May that Hamilton and Ferrari had dialogue about doing a deal\u00a0&#8211; explicitly denied by the driver and the Scuderia&#8217;s team principal Fred Vasseur at the time, but proven correct now.<\/p>\n<p>Horner said: &#8216;We have had several conversations over the years about Lewis joining.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They have reached out a few times. Most recently, earlier in the year, there was an inquiry about whether there would be any interest.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/22\/16\/78119431-12780485-image-a-1_1700670930412.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton (right) was open to becoming Max Verstappen&#8217;s (left) team-mate before penning his bumper new \u00a350m-a-year Mercedes deal, Mail Sport can sensationally now reveal<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/22\/16\/78119445-12780485-image-m-5_1700670942012.jpg\" height=\"528\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/22\/16\/78119485-12780485-image-a-6_1700670949051.jpg\" height=\"528\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Hamilton (left) also held talks with Ferrari, according to Red Bull team boss Christian Horner<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He met John Elkann (Ferrari chairman), too. I think there were serious talks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was around Monaco (in May). There were definitely conversations, perhaps with Vasseur, too. But certainly with Elkann.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But I can&#8217;t see Max and Lewis working out together. The dynamic wouldn&#8217;t be right. We are 100 per cent happy with what we have.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>After protracted negotiations, 38-year-old Hamilton signed up until the end of 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The deal, which takes the seven-time champion close to his 41st birthday, was announced at the end of August.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/formulaone\/article-12780485\/Lewis-Hamilton-talks-Red-Bull-Ferrari-Mercedes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: Lewis Hamilton held talks with Red Bull and Ferrari about joining before he inked new \u00a350m-a-year deal with Mercedes&#8230; and he was even open to joining forces with rival Max Verstappen! Lewis Hamilton signed a new \u00a350m-per-year, two-year deal back in August It has now emerged that the Mercedes driver held talks with two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EXCLUSIVE: Lewis Hamilton held talks with Red Bull and Ferrari - Sports Life Tale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/racing\/f1\/exclusive-lewis-hamilton-held-talks-with-red-bull-and-ferrari\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EXCLUSIVE: Lewis Hamilton held talks with Red Bull and Ferrari - Sports Life Tale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"EXCLUSIVE: Lewis Hamilton held talks with Red Bull and Ferrari about joining before he inked new \u00a350m-a-year deal with Mercedes&#8230; and he was even open to joining forces with rival Max Verstappen! 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